Costume Crafts 2-Day Workshop

Making, altering and repairing costumes is a highly skilled discipline that is always in demand and with applications far beyond the performing arts.

In this practical workshop, celebrated local costumes professionals Rich Hamson and Kathy Kohl will call on their decades of knowledge and experience as designers, shop supervisors and craftspersons to teach core basic techniques, as well as tips and tricks that they’ve learned over the years.

In this workshop participants will step through one specific (and especially instructive) process for creating a costume. Participants will:

Learn how to conduct a fitting session

Make a sloper, the basic building block of all pattern-making

Learn core craft techniques for measuring, sewing and construction

Learn key hand stitching skills called for in many costume shops

Learn proper operation and maintenance for sewing machines

Learn how to think about costumes and crafting, avoiding common pitfalls

Create a corrected custom pattern fit to themselves to take home for future reference

This is a two day workshop. Participants are required to attend both days.

All materials provided. In order to ensure sufficient and correct materials are available, participants will be asked to provide chest measurement at registration (shirt size or bra measurement will do).

Thanks to generous support from MRAC the cost for this workshop is only $80. Limited scholarships are available. Email info@techtoolstraining.org to inquire.

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Technical Tools of the Trade

We'll train you for whatever lies ahead!

Technical Tools of the Trade is a program to provide low-cost, accessible, yet high-quality instruction in technical theater and design. This is made possible by Legacy funding so that we are not compromising on the needed costs to get the proper equipment and hire the top-notch working professionals that we do.

We provide workshops for children and youth, all the way to seasoned experts looking for continuing education. We also have workshops for young professionals looking to improve their marketability and for networking opportunities in a business that is typically hard to break in to.